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A tsunami of noncommunicable diseases can be avoided if action taken now, reports say
Press Releases | 10th February 2020
Governments must dramatically accelerate their response to the global epidemic of NCDs to save millions of lives by 2025, according to two new reports released at the Global NCD Alliance Forum.
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Norway announces global strategy to tackle NCDs in low-income countries
Press Releases | 22nd November 2019
Announcement of a world first international health and development strategy by Norwegian government could be a game changer for responding to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the developing world.
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Governments should fight air pollution from fossil fuels like they fight tobacco: new report
Press Releases | 19th September 2019
A new report launched today challenges political leaders to tackle fossil fuel production and consumption as a health control issue, in the same way that smoking has been reduced and regulated.
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Healthy lives for all depends on action to prevent and control NCDs
Press Releases | 02nd September 2019
Activists around the world are raising their voices to say ENOUGH of the apathy, inaction and glacial progress on prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, and calling on governments to deliver on the right to health for all people everywhere.
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2019-2021 NCDA President and Board of Directors elected
Press Releases | 18th May 2019
NCDA members meeting at the General Assembly in Geneva elected Australian advocate and civil society leader Todd Harper, as the incoming President to lead the organisation during the next two years. The Board of Directors was also partially renewed, comprising an outstanding group of individuals from a range of backgrounds, areas of expertise across the NCD field, and geographies.
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Contaminating clean air discussions: health group call to ban fossil fuel industries from attending international climate negotiations
Press Releases | 11th December 2018
The NCD Alliance is leading a call to reject the dominant presence of representatives from fossil fuel industries at the ongoing COP 24 climate conference in Katowice, Poland and protect global health.
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NCD Alliance welcomes IADR - pushing for better inclusion of oral diseases on global NCD agenda
Press Releases | 23rd October 2018
The NCD Alliance is pleased to welcome the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) as a Full Member of NCDA, to better articulate the case for the inclusion of oral health in the fight against noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)
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Draft Political Declaration for UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs lacks strength and ambition required to avoid a preventable global health crisis
Press Releases | 08th August 2018
Civil society deplores controversial omission of sugar tax and other critical solutions from the outcome document prepared for the High-Level Meeting on NCDs.